The Sun. — London, England, 1818-03-28 00:00:00

~.,., e . , LI rEtimitY REVIEW. NORTHERN IRISH TALES. In Two Volumes. Loxo • MAN, HURiT, REES; oi6lEi and BROWN. an unanswerable appeal to the best and strongest sympathies of our common nature. Ni 7 c had been taught to look but for fiction, yet have discovered something rarer, if not clearer, than its most marvellous inventions, nature and truth. In the story of Stanley, we see the victim of parental neglect ; unforim:ate from his birth, he succeeds to a father's follies, and is at length conducted y them to an untimely grave. The Spech which 'be addresses to the Judge, who has condemned 'im, might have affected any audience—any Court---the at ways excepted. " I have a few words to say ; ymi may hear tile . m, for they are only tew, and, they arc my :• I have listened- to the (acid sentence; I have I;stened to it unmoved ; it is not an unfit one for a murderer, if a murderer I be ; but a murderer I ant not, at least, if torentron be necessary to make a roan so; my intention was not, perhaps, right ; but it was only to stop the coach, anti to take her out , whose loss, -as much as any other, I deplore. I was wounded in the attempt ; I was dis tracted by the anguish of pain ; I WKS further dis tracted by the ill success. of my enterprise;' I was falling to the ground when the pistol went off in my nerveless baud; I know 1101 at whom, and I bad-the misfortune to Isal the person who was the dearest to me upon earth. My soul from that in stant became. weary of the world, and of all things therein ; 1 was like a.pelican of the wil derness, or like an owl in the desert ,y,f the earth; I bespeak, therefore, neither mercy, nor desire 'commiseration ; nor 1 II I address you at all, .but for the sake of the poor creature who accom panied use on the fatal expedition, and only aban doned me at my own request : bad he, like the others, fled earlier, he Wright, like them, have escaped, and not been apprehended, as I learn he unfortunately is. Ris simplicity of heart made him ignorant of his danger. He would, 1 believe, have served the for myself; . he served,rue for an other reason; he was my ten Ant ; I promi4ed him a renewal of his lease, if he would assist in reco vering my wife; of nothing else did I think ; of nothing else, I ant sure, did Ire : be is a proper object of mercy ; and should he lie brought to aid, I beg . of the Court to represent him as such. • " For myself, life is not worth asking for ; and Were I to choose, death tvoid4 almost be asy choice : it comes is a terrible form, indeed, and -sooner than by the course of nature I had reason •to expect; but the form, after all, is of little con sequence, and the time, if possible, of still less: • there is no inquisition in the grave, w hether w e have lived one, or a bundled years, and the day of our death is better than the day of our birth l" The following passage contains no•triwtal truth t--4 " Death to the shiner is dreadful," said Stan. , ity,:with a sigh. " Death is dreadful," replied Henderson, • " whether to sinner or saint. l will not deceive you, nor fill your ear with unmeaning words, Which, issned not from my heart, could. touch 110 -••• or res porrtting chord of your's. Nature shrinks from the extinction of life. Death, whenever we tiave leisure coolly to .survey it, is dreadful we must, therefore, not survey it coolly ; we must vandeavotir not to think of it I but it you must think of it, think, likewise, of the many miseries of human life, which drew from the wisest of men the, melancholy observation, that all is va , pity and vexation of spirit ! Wherefore he praised the dead which are already dead, more than the living Which are yet alive. Irca, better is he than both they, proceeds he, who hath not, yet been, who bath not seen the.evil that is done under the sun, " die is the common lot ; why should we, then, in peevish opposition, take it to heart ? " For certainly we must, As we ale born, return to dust." " Drink, drink ; sorrow is low down, am drunkenness, which is joy, is high up we %vil stop At time middle point, " Hundreds on the earth are (Tying at this mo• Merit : hundreds on hundreds have died since l • • . began to speak :—in a fe w d a y s y ou will, die.— Drink, drink, you see I drink too. In a few yews .1 shall die also : see shall be buried alike, and where then is the difference between ? In a feiv years more your story may be the subject of a tale : bright eyes may ttetp titer your sufferings and your woes. Yet a few years, and those bright eyes will be closed in death, as our's so long hare been. SAifferer, friend, reader of his sufferings, relater of them j yet a few years, and Where is the difference between them ? The world's a vast dungeon, Time an inexo rable Judge, and Death a remorseless executioner, •vho strikes all and spares none." We recommend the following observations, re specting condemned criminals, to serious atten tion :-- " The refinement of putting a person or persons in the cell or dungeon of the condemned, In those days, was unknown, or at least was little practised. Sorry I am it ever should be practised ; and would 1 could find words to touch the hearts of those with whom the remedy lies. But liaVe lawgivers, or lawmakers, in general, hearts to be so touched ? Little hearts, or understandings either, I am sure have they; for they write their laws in charac ters of blood, and then wonder that men are crueller than before. They hang, they quarto., they dismember, they dissect, they behead.—Do . In perusing these little volumes which have ap peared under the abovx,Title, the Tale, particu larly that which, being the first and the besr, has the strongest claim to attention, we were tempted to impute to the Anihor a misnomer ; he had merely le►l ui to expect a tale of fancy, when he bat! prepared an impressive lesson of morality-- so, lawgivers _ rpt;lrte . r, di,metubtr, dissect, behead, as before : I address you not On the subject ; for: the addresses. wiser, of more eloquent, and better men are unattended to. But do not refine upon living, as you do upon dying, suffering; do not torture before you kilt; do not gall the wearied body with huge irons; do not subdue the wounded , soul by muddy. water taken front the disgusting ditch; do not debar. a fellow cteature the poor privilege of walking and think ing alone: kindly let him brood over his goes in solitude : irt him prune and smooth, for its ap proaching flight, his soul's pinions, that it may meet its God tutruffied and undisturbed. " Lawmakers ! your's iss-a condition which, in ordinary tittles; exposes you - little to the ordinary miseries of man. Bat could von conceive theth— these miseri es : cou ld y ou conceive how the aching heart pants after solitude, and un shackled motion ; how it - would take the wings of the morning that it might flee to the wilderness, or the lonely mountain's top, you would trot, in its extremest misery, teinse it this last sad eon solar ion. " The lay eras passed by Stanley .entitely alone. With evening came the frientL sat late %vitt) bin; ; lie comforted hint ; be gave hint wine as before : he again made hint cheerful, and lett him so,. Sunday morning da -; ;the first-born day of time, when, in the sublime language of Scrip- . tore,.God Let there be light, and there Was light.' [low i ghtly clawus it on labour which' that dety reposes itself on scanty food which anticipates abundance ; On devotion which prepares to prostrate itself in-bis- temple before the Tribunal of its God i but how heavily does it daivn on him whose days are numbered, and glass is shaken, that it may the faster run; who loaths dainty food. ; who has done with labour, yet is sick of repose, and on whose scalning . sores offi cious Priests pour not the balsam of God's heating mercy, but empty the full vial of his denunciation of wrath." - FRENCH PA PERS. Paßts,.l.llaacti 24.—We learn from the 'Banlcs of the Rhine that preparations .are making at llusseldoiff for the reception Of' the Allied Save :suite' ha mile's shintmillea I,itu tt - ') rails, aJdiessed Thew it) the iollotvit4 - 7,0,Fe — C,17 " Soldiers, —1 g” from you fur ashort time. Before my de partnre:l wished to The' comrades and compa nions in arms :who li;iVortred: here with me in the cause of :our King and COuntry, whatever distance of time or space !may seNrate us, my mind will always. be in the midst of you. •I shall partake in your senti m ents . as in your actions. May 'they alisays he the terror of crime, as they are the safety and liope of the country. " Soldiers,--We have but one iife: that lice is honour. Honour consists of fidelity to the King. Without the King. no more France, no more Frenchmen ! . That fine name of ri-enclinian,' which was in times past, as it will be in limes to come, the synoultne of glory and of valour; we will trans mit to those who have yet to begin their career, as we have received it from our ancestors. I pledge myself to this result by your swords, which have been here consecrated by fidelity. " Adieu, My friends, let the air ring once more with the cry which has always been, and shalt he till our last hour, our rallying . cry—Vivcnt a jantais Buurldowi ! (Live for ever the King and theßourbonsrp reigns. It is nnderstood that Lord Castlereagh, the Duke de Richelieu, and the Duke of Wellington., will proceed to Dussrldotif about the same pe riod. The day before yesterday being Easter Sunday, he King, accompanied by the Princes and Prin cesses of his family, the Plince of -Contl4, and the Spanish Neapolitan Anibassadors, repaired to the chapel of the Palace to hear mass. On his return his Majesty appeared surrounded by the Princes awl Princesses, showed himself at , : the balcony .of the glass gallety. and. was saluted by the most lively acclamations. After having en tered into his apartments, his. Majesty held a levee, which was attended by the Ministers, the Marshals, the Cardinals, the Peers of France, the Deputies, and military officers of all ranks. Yesterday his Majesty transacted business with the Miuistcr of Finance. Subscriptions have been - opened in several quar ters of Paris for the relief of the sufferers by the burning of the Odeon. The list of the subscrib ers will be published. All the Theatres are about to give extraordinary representations for the re lief of the suffeters. A Journal says that the Concierge of the Odeon has been arrested. The action of a young market porter, who, at the mo ment when the fire of the Odeon raged stith the greatest violence, sav e d, at th e h azar d of his awn fife, a woman and her daughter, has been recom pensed with . a bounty truly Royal, by a Prince whose privy -purse is the patrimony of all those who deserve assistance, encouragetnent, or re- Co mpeu 3 e. This fine trait' of devotion recals to our minds another, which, triongh it occurred a consider able time ago ; may be new to several of our readers. _Refute the Revolution, a considereble tire broke out in the city of Anch, capital of La Guienne. The Venerable A rehlsisherp, M. drhpch on, repaired to the place among the foremost, accord ing to his custom. Tw o children, who appeared at a window, were an the point of destruction. The prelate urged and conjured those about him w save these unfortunate victims -4 his entreaties and his efforts were fruitless. He offered a le ward of one hundred lottis this promise. srli likewise ineffectual: The threatening danger, and the prospect of almost certain death, in timidated the. Most intrepid, and restrained the -most - eager. The good At chhishop, agitated with emotion, and overcome with a ngui•nh, consulting only the impulses of his own. heart-, and the dic tates-of that religion whicisis the - inexhaustible source of so many prodigies of • charity, rushed through the flames, Penetrated to, the burning asylum of those unfortunates, and succeeded in - rcescuingthem from death, amid ; the.trampotts of admiration and gratitude of ten thuusandspectat ors. He delivered them to the arms of their mother, Who could scarcely be recoveredirom a long faint ing fit, saying, with emotion i .Al Here are your Children, and the sum promised to hitn . who should have the happiness of restoring then) to you." The inhabitants of the southern districts of Paris had scatcely seen the only Theatre of their quarter of the city becoming a prey to the flames, than they. began to busy themselves with the means of repairing their loss. The capitalists of Paris being more than ever animated with the spirit of enterprise, the funds necessary for restor ing the part of the 'theatre which had been de stroyed, a loss which is estimated at a million, will be easily found, provided wise changes in the regulation of theatrical property render an orga nization of this spectacle capable of attracting numbers: The article recommends the erection of this establishment into a Theatre for acting re gular plays, likethe.Theatre Francais. Viscount Donadieu, Lietttenatit-General, com manding the 17th military division, before his de parture from Grenoble, ordered the troops of I.he garrison to assemble, and after announcing that FIVE PER CENTS. Monthly, ex. div. • 65 f. 90c. FLORENCE, AlAttcli .12.--The following is an extract of-a letter from Algiers, dated Feh:.6 " The Coniuts of Foreign Powers here ei4oy all the security and consideration that is due to POLICE INTELLIGENCE.. MARLDOIIOI3I;II.STR.EkT. THE CASE 01' FINNEY, CHARGED WITH UTTEE/NG 'FORGED BANK NOTES. This prisoner, 'those case is indirectly connect ed with the boys Etlly and Spicer, who were re cently saved front an ignominious death iu con sequence of some doubts existing whether they had not been incited by Finney to commit a ca pital felony, was yesterday finally examined, when the Magistrate addressed him as follows : " Prisoner,—You have now been in custody three weelis, on suspicion of-haring - otteo.4l forged 13.11,1; Notes, hut no person having come for ward to allege a c(ruplaint of the kind, aad the- Bank. having no charge- against you, I dis charge you; and- let me advise you to refirm your course of life, for had a case been exhibited_against you, it would have been very closely followed np. l'oit have been its some silica sure connected wills Kelly and Spicer according to your .owls confession, in being in their company when you knew they were'paSsing bad I/ sites; therefore, a: you had stork in the country when yore were apprehended, von, to avoid had coin piny in London, had better warn th v rt aril follow indus trious yursuits." The prisoner said he would 'follow the advice of the Magistrate, and he hoped he would give him a letter to Isis employer in the ,country, stating that there was no charge . against Isis*. It was understood that such a letter would be given.— The prisoner was desired to call on the Batik So licitor far the_ money lie bad about him when taken. 'lle was dk : ested of his irons, and, be left the Office in a coach. k(MV-STItEE - P. . . Iron NoecKEN.--,Vesterday Baron Nolcken attended before 131Cil.131RNLE, Esq. and produced four Newspape'rs, itatiiig that - tftey contained an advertisement in whiclehis name was very impro perly used, and pointed it out. it represented that the mast choice stock. of wines, and a great variety of valuable household and 'other property, belonging to the Baron Noleken;was to be sold by auction Yesterday morning, at his house, No. 12, Bulstrode-street. The Baron stated Alta( the advertisement was intended as a gross imposition upon the public to answer some fraudulent pur pose, as the property advertised to be sr/Melia not belong to him, nor did he ever live in the house ; be therefore wished that all the parties who might be discovered to be concerned in the transaction should be rosecated. The Magistrate informed the Baron the trans action was not of a criminal nature, or sufficient fcr him to grant warrants, or to authorise per sons to be taken into custody ; but he was ready to render him every possible assistance to prevent the public from being defrauded. tie a ecord iogly ordered Thomas Rice,. Thomas Jones, and Mason, three 'constables, to attend the Bat-on to the house of sale. -They proceeded to Hoist:ode. street, where they found preparations fur the sale, with carpets hanging ow,. and catalogues of them. The catalogues did not correspond with the advertisement in the N! . wspnpers, Baron Nolckeu's name not being mentioned. They merely stated that the household furniture was to be sold by Messrs. liogarth and Co. without re. serve, on the premises, No. 12, Bulstrode-street; to be viewed, and catalogues had at. the place of sale, and at the aticJioneers', without saying where the auctioneers resided. They found a female acting as a servant, who said her name was Margaret . Baker-, but site either did not or would not know who employed her. or wil . " the house and property belonged to ;, in fact nn sa tisfactory account could be obtained from her. The sale was appointed to take place in the front room on the, first floor, .where, Jost as the auctioneer h a d entere d hi s pu l p i t , an d t h e corn pany were assembled, the Baron Nolcken, his at torney, and the constables entered the room ; a l t i t e d s t a l l i ,, e . et a t s tis a t ( i i t t id e t it s is c c a: i. t ti tioed the cr!loPanY-against bidding fO r , or porcliasiog any of the property at t a none of the prop ert y beh s n rigt wase toti a ll mock I c Nolcken, nor was thin house . -his. The auctioneer called upon the,const ables to know who they were, and by what authority they acted ? They informed him V.'llo _they wete; that they had conic there , by order of ,1I r. Birnie, at Bow -street, not. with any authority to take ..any person into custody, but to caution the persons attending the sale against being deceived. The Baron Nolcken then avowed himself, and the man in the pulpit denied being a principal in the business, and said he was only a set vant. lie behaved very civilly to the Baron,-and agreed not to proceed with the sale. The Baron Nolcken attended at the. Office in the evenivg - to thank Air. Mettle, and said he was perfectly satisfied with w hat had taken place to stop the auction in his name. LAMBETH-sTRE ET. BULLOCK-lIUNTING.—YeStmtay i nt . Hewitt, in addition to the other three, was brought up, charged with being concerned in the bullock hunting riot; and outrageous attack on the pre mises ul Messrs. Rosier and Jacques, dycrs, iitire-street, Spitalfields. 'Mews. Rosier, s e [/ ' ;and jun. attended;Wini — inJoy - other witnesse9' :Mr. Rosier stated, that in the affray one of t ll6 shopmen .received a :seVere wound over bis eY e i and ,the, surgeons cannot declare his life out :danger, and 'bat others were injured, but 11° _, ;so materially. The' Magistrate regretted leg ,much t hat • he co u ld . not, 'upon : Con s id er ation, t l any more with. the prisoners but commit them they procured good to answer the charge s the sessions"; hi the "mean time, if the ortfol nate man shOtilli: die, they wo u ld b e a pp re heolic for the murder. .;tIANSION-HOUSE. TH E Bis HOPSGATE GA NG.— Yesterday, four Will named Towers, .Clorke,, Juckson, and Ferris, brought IT, charged with being accessories in the robbery at the shop of Mrs. Willis, jeweller, 15i ' shopsgate-sti eet. Sapwell, the officer, stated that, subsequent the exmnination of the four boy s upon t hi s c harge on Thursday, the father of Arundel. the 001)60 1 delinquent, in an interview - with his son, had Jar dueed bin: to give further information upon 11 1 subject o f th e ro bb ery lit r Mrs. IVirlis's. H e salt! that the gang consisted of nine - hays, Bud that f" four above-named pi isoners were among the Wu" her, and had a share of the rings. The witntVf in consequence, proceeded to apprehend theto;bat • he had failed in his endeavours to trace an, P r of the property. Arnndel, who WM. also brought up, now 1' 44 temptud to deny that he was the person who et "; toed the shop of Mts. Willi s , an d en it eavo nredtl f show that' Mitckett, wbb first 'gave inform:3,oov' the robbery, was the principal. actor. Illaclie t " he said, first went into the.shop to purchase 5 09) 5 article for the purpose of ascerraininv trhether • . t robbery way prileticab4e. .Mrs. said, she recollected seeinfrthe sorter fllackett in her shop on the evenin4 robber y, and that he purchased a pair of ear-tivO i s The . prisoners alTdenied . any knowledge • of t he robbery lint, with the exteptiowol Jacksonycoo' fessed hating had part of the stolen artieles. Towers, Clarke, and Perlis, were reinantre', 4 1 ' and Jackson, who did — not ',cern be iroplirat t "l was liberated, upon pronsisir.sg fo appear or >OS: day next, wh en t h e ot h ers ar e to be re-exami!'c AWFULLY sunorx DR TI-r.-01r Sunday' noon. last, a female servant, resit Ping witls•N)e- LnbiGLEY, iJookscllCY, Mansfield, ~was iii tlse of preparing tea, when hi an instant .She convulsive Start, drop; el down on the flOor, 4 " immettiatelly expired. She was a young Pc 7sl , much resp e ct e d i n h er s i tsaat i ou, 0 / 1/. '" places where she had resided.--Vet diet of the toner's ably, "Died by the vi,k,ition Of G'" ) ' follow ing •afrtieling cireumstatrce at: Carlisle on the aftertrOon of Tocsclal 14 ° A.s the smr and daughter of Mr. Potts, of S'tn - -; house (the former aged 16, and the o'ir'" r years, Were ero , sing the river Irthingr "' l s horse, nea r t o Flohnhead„ Brampton,. they "'Y— e n eared d)own I).y the itnpettiosity of tLle stlell'lr which was swollien by precious rains, and Mutt; .drowned'.The 'mined on which th.'y thrice refused , to enter the water • the attempt to , urge hint forward fatally soecee&ds when the whole were engoliThed iii tke foanri,tt.r+ eft mem ! This dreadful Ucetorerree was Witrtesse ti by two females who hart accompanied (hens, V who could not afford assistance cotherw;se thre giving an initnediate alartn it the nei , ghtrotolw ut -'' rrhich, when it Wed' arrive, was unavairlog'. r The Inverness Co ur i er s t ates , that in the - (Millets of the Highlands the snow 1.0 9. 1; f aIj41 : within the l as t tot tn i g h t to a greater dtpfli °a i r , it has for many yettrs p Noti dive)). skirt: ° : ti i ed greatly. extent cannOt b e asce rtained lit the storm abates. In Stratheonan, the dead c ,l l , cases wh•iell hare already b een f oun d vvoot completely eaten off by the starvi:trg do' ......._ . . CdUILSE OF' EXCIIANGh, Fttrimr - MARcti ''',., fp ,‘ . , 2 /3„, --... msteril-mu . , , i 7 Ditto, at Sight Artiste' darn , ' II 8 ' Mtto, at Siglst ....... •tierdaiii ... - 11 • lej - - • Alit we - • f 1 gli Rona furls, 3 !):t tiatt nourtleaux, (IA to ... 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MARRIED. 01, 0i Thursdity last, at Mary-I e-Inme New Cholch, I;'i3itl• Crossett, Esq.Aliofier of his itlajesty'iCi . ioncil o f the T o d of Barbadoe,, to Eliz a , d aug ht er of t i e late Job" of Barrow, Esq. and sister of the present J o hn Barrow, Hill Park, near Seven Oaks, Kent. I)IEI). ee On IVednesday last, after a short illness, Mr' Warren, of the Dog Tavern, Holywell-str e o, titrand. On the 17th instant, in St...l o h n - s t ree t, in his fifteeno,`, year, Frederick Penningt o n, th e son o f NI r .T r hornas _ .ei r ningt on, the gentl e man wi n , was so i n h uman ly murdered " lebrualy, 1317. Ott Wednesday last, in Essex•street, titrand, after days' illness, Aim Blundell, only child of, Alt. Mai a 9 lu dal, aged live rears and five mont its. • .• • • siv .ONI)ON: by J. B. c.llt.sT. l / 4 IRS, of Nil. 29, 6 ," (hmod-street,, re r 1,10,11014,1 1)V tt SCRIPPS, of No. 7, South :1101ton-street . , at r 015 C•, No. 11`2. Strand; wilert ,(2 1 ." (1. 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